JIM DE BOOM -- Community & Clubs

BLOOD DRIVE: The Costa Mesa-Newport Harbor Lions Clubs program Nov. 21

featured American Red Cross speaker Stacy Baker, donor recruiter

representative for Orange County Red Cross. She coordinates blood drives

and notes the Red Cross needs to have a seven- to 10-day supply of blood

on hand. Many times throughout the year there is considerably less supply

on hand. The Red Cross needs to collect 1,000 pints a day from Orange

County donors, otherwise, blood needs to be imported from the Midwest.

Costa Mesa-Newport Harbor Lion Art Parry, an administrator at Estancia

High School, has a blood donation clinic set from 7:30 a.m. to 1 p.m.

Tuesday at the school for students, faculty and the public. A number of

members of Lions Club have volunteered to donate blood, and you can also

by calling Perry at (949) 515-6553 or by calling Stacy Baker at (714)

431-0565. Donate blood -- it’s for a lifesaving cause.

UNSUNG HERO: The Newport Beach Corona del Mar Kiwanis Club honored

longtime Hoag Hospital Auxiliary volunteer Frank Brown with an Unsung

Hero award at Thursday’s luncheon meeting. Doug Campbell, Hoag Hospital

Auxiliary vice president, notes there are more than 600 men and women who

volunteer their time and talent, and Frank Brown is one who has given

2,500 hours on the wheelchair escort team, escorting patients in and out

of the hospital. “Frank Brown is an unsung hero, one who does things

quietly in the community and is very much appreciated,” Campbell said as

he presented the award to Brown. For more information about volunteer

opportunities at Hoag Memorial Hospital, call Campbell at (949) 640-4573.

HELP WANTED: SOS is having a huge used toy drive and need lots of

volunteers for toy sorting, any time from 8 a.m to 4 p.m. Dec. 2, 3, 9

and 10. If you are interested or have interested high school-age students

who need to fulfill community service hours, call Robin Sinclair at (949)

515-7316.

If you would like to help during the distribution, it will begin at 8

a.m. Dec. 16. Parents line up at 4:30 a.m. to get the “prized” toys. If

you have gently used toys, books, games, bikes, in-line skates, scooters,

video games, etc. please consider dropping them off before Dec. 9 at the

SOS office, 1550 Superior Ave, Costa Mesa.

CHRISTMAS BOAT PARADE: Harbor Mesa Lions Club will cruise the

Newport Bay on Dec. 22 aboard the 109-foot M.S. Phoenix this year in the

annual Newport Christmas Boat Parade. The event is a fund-raiser for the

benefit of local charities and the Miss Costa Mesa scholarship fund

contest in June at the Lion’s Fish Fry. The public is welcome to join the

event, which will start at 6 p.m. Tickets can be bought for $40 per

person and include the cruise, heavy hors d’ oeuvres, music and dancing

provided by a deejay, a no-host bar, and opportunity drawings. Santa,

Lion John Stansbury, will be there to greet the passengers as they board

the ship. For tickets and information, call Arlene Schafer at (714)

546-1429.

WORTH REPEATING: From Newport Beach-Corona del Mar Kiwanis Club

“Scuttlebutt” . . . ‘Young men know the rules. Old men know the

exceptions.”

SERVICE CLUB MEETINGS THIS WEEK: Want to get more involved in your

community, make new friends, network or give something back to your

community? Try a service club! You are invited to attend a club meeting

this week. Many clubs will buy your first guest meal for you.

MONDAY

6:30 p.m.: Harbor Mesa Lions will meet for their annual family

Christmas party at the Costa Mesa Golf and Country Club.

TUESDAY

7:15 a.m.: The Newport Beach Sunrise Rotary Club will meet at the

Balboa Bay Club.

6:30 p.m.: The Costa Mesa-Newport Harbor Lions Club will meet at the

Costa Mesa Country Club.

WEDNESDAY

7:15 a.m.: The South Coast Metro Rotary Club will meet at the Center

Club, and the Newport Harbor Kiwanis Club will meet at the University

Athletic Club.

Noon: The Orange Coast Exchange Club will meet at the Bahia Corinthian

Yacht Club for a business meeting, and Soroptimist International of

Newport Harbor will meet at the Santa Ana Country Club for a business

meeting.

6 p.m.: The Newport-Balboa Rotary Club will meet at the Bahia

Corinthian Yacht Club for a program on Fire Ants.

THURSDAY

7:15 a.m.: The Costa Mesa Orange Coast Breakfast Lions Club will meet

at Mimi’s Cafe for a business meeting.

Noon: Kiwanis Club of Costa Mesa will meet at the Holiday Inn, the

Newport Beach-Corona del Mar Kiwanis Club will meet at the Bahia

Corinthian Yacht Club, The Exchange Club of Newport Harbor will meet at

the Riverboat Restaurant for business meeting, and The Newport Irvine

Rotary Club will meet at the Irvine Marriott Hotel.

COMMUNITY & CLUBS is published every Saturday in the Daily Pilot. Send

your service club’s meeting information by fax to (949) 660-8667, e-mail

to jdeboom@aol.com or by mail to 2082 S.E. Bristol, Suite 201, Newport

Beach, CA 92660-1740.